Campbell, Robert, 1846-1907

Epithet: of Add MS 28133*

Epithet: Captain

Epithet: merchant and magistrate, of New Sough Wales

Epithet: of Add Ch 6023

Epithet: Captain; RN

Epithet: of Glasgow

Biographical Information

Bobbi Campbell was born January 29, 1951. He was "thirty-one and a half" when he started this journal on July 28, 1983. He was one of the early men diagnosed with AIDS. Bobbi Campbell worked as a nurse and then sought further training as a nurse practitioner. Campbell also lectured and appeared at conferences and symposia as the "AIDS Poster Boy," and was active with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

Robert Campbell was born on 1 January 1881 at Auchenblae, Kincardineshire, Scotland. He was educated at Edinburgh University, graduating with an MA in 1903. He was appointed lecturer in petrology and assistant to Professor James Geikie at Edinburgh University in 1904, graduating with a BSc the following year. He conducted a detailed study of the rocks from Gough Island brought back by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1904 (leader William Speirs Bruce). In 1911, Campbell was awarded a doctorate for his research on the geology of south-eastern Kincardineshire. Between 1914 and 1915, he served as president of the Edinburgh Geological Society, having been elected a fellow in 1904, and later served as honorary editor of the Society.

In 1920, Campbell joined the Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate Expedition as field geologist, working for a summer season from Brucebyen on the geology of the Billefjorden area in Spitsbergen. The Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate was founded by William Speirs Bruce in 1909 as a mineral exploration company to locate and assay the potential of the Svalbard archipelago for the exploitation of minerals such as coal, gypsum, iron ore, marble and possibly petroleum. The initial work was to be primarily scientific, but good commercial prospects were held out as incentives to shareholders in the company. Despite seven expeditions between 1909 and 1922, the Syndicate conducted no commercial mining operations.

After the expedition, Campbell was promoted reader in petrology at Edinburgh University in 1922, later serving as director of studies in science from 1933. Retiring in 1951, he died on 19 February 1957 in Kincardineshire.

Published work Rocks from Gough Island, South Atlantic (collected by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1903-1904), Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1914 No.50 part 2 (13) SPRI Library Shelf (7)91(08)[1902-1904 Bruce]